Practical Pig
| Three Little Pigs | |
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| Silly Symphonies series | |
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| Directed by | Burt Gillett |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Voices by |
Pinto Colvig Billy Bletcher Mary Moder Dorothy Compton |
| Music by |
Carl W. Stalling Frank Churchill |
| Animation by |
Fred Moore Art Babbitt Jack King Dick Lundy Norm Ferguson |
| Studio | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | May 27, 1933 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 8 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Father Noah's Ark |
| Followed by | Old King Cole |
Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. Based on a fairy tale of the same name, the Silly Symphony won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The short cost $22,000 and grossed $250,000. In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2007, Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Practical Pig, Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig are three brothers who build their own houses with bricks, sticks and straw respectively. All three of them play a different kind of musical instrument – Fifer Pig "toots his flute, doesn't give a hoot and plays around all day," Fiddler Pig "with a hey diddle diddle, plays on his fiddle and dances all kinds of jigs" and Practical Pig is initially seen as working without rest. Fifer and Fiddler build their straw and stick houses with much ease and have fun all day. Practical, on the other hand, "has no chance to sing and dance for work and play don't mix," focusing on building his strong brick house, but his two brothers poke fun at him. An angry Practical warns them "You can play and laugh and fiddle. Don't think you can make me sore. I'll be safe and you'll be sorry when the Wolf comes through your door!" Fifer and Fiddler ignore him and continue to play, singing the now famous song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".
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